As a former fisheries biologist, I can confirm that bluegill and green sunfish hybrids are super common. Tiger trout are great sportfish as they are fun to catch but also sterile so it's easier to manage their populations. Here in the western U.S we also encounter quite a few rainbow trout and cutthroat trout hybrids known as "cuttbows"
Sunfish in general tend to hybridize in the wild because they are often found in the same waters and they have similar spawning habits. Their offspring are often even more colorful than the parents.
I've seen tons of weird colors in sunfish infested waters like shades of purple and I've seen a red one a single time, I've only fished a few years but I've found countless sunfish who's colors weren't right for our local species(we have no red sunfish to my knowledge and I've never heard of purple and black sunfish eother)
@@Deeznutz002 hybridizing in the black bass family is usually a bad thing. For instance, the shoal bass is native to the streams where I live, but they are threatened by hybridization with illegally stocked spotted bass. I have caught these hybrids, but no shoal bass.
There's a pretty cool bass hybrid called the meanmouth bass. The parent species are a smallmouth bass and a largemouth or spotted bass (at least I think it can be a spotted bass). But since bass usually seems to be other fishermen's favorite and most targeted fish it might be a cool one. But I'm always amazed to see a nice sized musky or tiger musky and hope to one day catch one...
@@lugoismad ...that maybe so...however i grew up on a lot of southeastern lakes and have seen a hybrid of a small mouth and large mouth bass called a Warmouth by every old school fisherman that was around during these times. So thats how i know it to be called that. I just looked up sunfish and the large mouth bass is part of the family. So i think we are talking about the same basic thing just from two different experiences in life with them. Later...
@@heathb4319 warmouth sunfish are different than small/largemouth bass hybrids. But yes theyre all related, and its entirely possible the old heads near you call meanmouths warmouths. But warmouths are another actual panfish species.
The clip of Arnie at the start can make anyone's bad day turn into a good one in an instant. Such a handsome boy 🐕 Also love the videos mate always looking forward to the next upload 👍
I caught some brook trout. When cleaning the fish I noticed one was different. I took it to a fish and game warden. He said hey you caught yourself a tiger trout. I had never heard of them before!
Taxonomy the way it's commonly taught in schools, with neat species, genera, families, etcetera, has been recognised by scientists as incorrect and insufficient for most scientific purposes years ago. Most either use cladistics or disregard taxonomy in favour of ecological guilds. Schools just tend to lag behind the actual science, probably because revising the textbooks takes a lot of time and money.
@@alphatrion100 Not in the slightest. All humans belong to a single species, Homo sapiens. The video is talking about hybridisation between different species. Home sapiens (more correctly sub-species Homo sapiens sapiens) is, in point of fact, one of the least genetically diverse species of mammal in the world; a result of having emerged from a very small gene pool. You can't get much more "mixed" than human beings. There is more diversity in a single group of Bonobo chimps than in the entire human species. We are all one very closely related family.
@@michaelafrancis1361 but our facial carachteristics, hair, body sizes and color (yes i went there) differ so much. I feel like if we found 2 animals that are so different we would classify them as 2 species. Or atleast sub species. BUT i do understand the social upset that would cause so we maybe CHOSE not to? Im not sure.
There is a WI state hatchery on Lake Superior that actively breeds Splake for release in Lake Superior. Splake are a very common catch in the western end of the big Lake.
Longnose Gar x Alligator Gar hybrids are awesome fish... and extremely rare. I know an Alligator Gar guide in Texas that has caught thousands of Gar but only a handful of these hybrids.
Thank you for another great and entertaining video. I know of other hybrid fish (you mentioned some of them already in the video) parrot cichlids (on its own) - Polar Blue Parrot Cichlids (parrot/convict) - some smallest hybrids CPD/Emerald rasbora cross IDK the english name (Danio Marginatus/Danio Erythromicron) - some biggest could be redtail/shovelnose hybrid catfish
There's a hybrid between a largemouth and smallmouth bass called a meanmouth bass, not the most interesting hybrid fish but they are known to be a little more aggressive
Where I live there's a hybrid between the native Yellowstone Cutthroat Trout and the introduced Raindow Trout called the Cutbow Trout. We are told if you catch one your not supposed to release it.
"Flowerhorns" are so goofy looking as to be quite charming. Color always garners attention, so how can you go wrong with a dazzling Flowerhorn? Oh yes, their size also recommends them.
I have to disagree. A lot of flowerhorns are prone to infection and a premature death. Really, it is irresponsible and unethical to create a fish like this. If you want a charming fish with personality and color, get a tiger or fire morph of an oscar.
As someone who owns a flowerhorn, and many other aggressive central and South American cichlids (red devils, vieja, festae, jags, Jack Dempseys, green terror) I was always put off by them simply because of the hybridization process and for the ethical and moral dilemma that come with it. Chilli (my female flowerhorn) whom I rescued from a small tank with disgusting green water and a noticeable smell of urea has rewarded me greatly with a loving but staunch personality. I was told "she doesn't get along with others" but has turned out to be one of the more timid and gentle fish in the tank. She is very goofy looking indeed but I think it adds to her charm, the oversized eyes and slight underbite makes her look like the bulldog of the fish world. If I wasn't given the opportunity to give her a new or better life I never would have even considered buying one, now she's one of my favourites.
Do a hybrid bos/pythons video! People have went all out with those things and i think it's worth covering in a video. I've seen people mixing anacondas with central american boas
It would be interesting to hear your take on red eye bass/ spotted bass hybrids. They are an issue due to our competing and outnumbering the rarer native red eye in Alabama. They are a fascinating fish. And the more people that can learn about them the better. These fish are facing lots of problems and being native to only a few river in Alabama and Georgia the range isn’t big to begin with.
Warmouth: bluegill and bass hybrid A lot of people don’t know but bass and bluegill are pretty closely related as the only true bass are yellow and striped bass if I recall correctly
My cousin had a male Flowerhorn and a female Jaguar cichlids that produced about 100 fry that made it to adulthood. He then bred those offspring to a Red Devil cichlids. Evil fish!!! Lol
I have caught a few tiger trout, didn't know what the were as, it was the 70s and no google. I just wrote them off as a brown trout. Nice to know. The palomino trout is probably the prettiest, and rarest, I have only seen one in my life and it was a lunker.
just a few that i know of. Hybrid F1 Carp a cross between Common Carp and Crucian Carp. Hybrid striped bass a cross between white bass and stripped bass and a few of the letherjacket (filefish) species can hybridize
Muskie is short nick name for Muskellunge, it is the fish of 100,000 casts. The Tiger is very aggressive and not as hard to catch compared to it's parent. Love you vids
in the pet trade we have the platy and swordtail, they have been interbreed to get the colors we have now, so non of them are 100% paly or swordtail. and we have the same with the molly as they have interbreed different kinds to get what we have now. on the other hand we have the different Malawi cichlids, they are all relatively closely related so if you have a few single fish from different species or some that look similar, you can get hybrids, and these are frowned upon, not like with the platy, swordtail and molly that where breed deliberate.
On my last trip (June 2021) to Bull Shoals, AR, I caught 2 Tiger Trout down below the dam on the White River. I honestly thought I had a very large Brown Trout both times. They we 16" Tigers. Fun to catch, but kinda disappointing once landed as they were so much smaller than the Brown's were were catching (22" - 25").
My uncle and i cought a paddle fish by mistake back in 2017. We new right away we needed to release it as soon as possible so we did. It was so cool looking and weird that we caught it in the bayou in south Louisiana. I did get a picture of it before we released it never know if ill never get the chance again in my life.
Incorrect. The warmouth (Lepomis gulosus) is not a hybrid of a bluegill (Lepomis macrochirus) and largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides). Warmouth is in the same genus as bluegill, but it is its own species. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warmouth
my family used to own a flowerhorn named lucky. We got him as a baby and he was a very ugly silver/black mix when we got him, so he was very cheap. Within 6 months he had doubled his size and had eaten all the neon tetras and shrimp that were his tank mates. Within a year his colors came back and he was a beautiful pink and green color with dark red spots. At this time he was around 8 inches in a 60 gallon aquaruim by himself, so if he got any bigger we didnt know what we would do with him. fast forward another year, hes a foot long and is so aggressive that if someone so much as walks by the tank he slams into the glass full speed. We didnt know what to do with him, so we sold him to a local fish shop for around 300 dollars. So, if you know what youre doing and have plenty of spare 80-100 gallon tanks you can make a pretty penny breeding them.
As a former fisheries biologist, I can confirm that bluegill and green sunfish hybrids are super common. Tiger trout are great sportfish as they are fun to catch but also sterile so it's easier to manage their populations. Here in the western U.S we also encounter quite a few rainbow trout and cutthroat trout hybrids known as "cuttbows"
Duuuuude. This was such an AWESOME IDEA!!!! I love the hybrid thing; it’s one of those things that slips your mind. I DEMAND more hybrid videos. Lol.
I was extremely surprised that the paddlefish and sturgeon were able to have offspring. It definitely has characteristics from both.
i just finished the other episode, i like seeing more diverse content! keep up the content!
Thanks Sal I appreciate it and i'll keep them coming :)
If you do another one of these, you should cover the "meanmouth" bass. It's a largemouth and smallmouth bass hybrid!
Hahahaha
Why didn't they name it "medianmouth" though ?
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@@Xaiff mean is another word for median so technically they did
@@anthonygiorod2314 no mean is another word for average
@@Hunter-ok1cu you're right! Thank you for the correction my dude:)
Love this! Can you do one on Aquarium-kept hybrids? In particular, I am curious about the hybridization of various betta species.
Seconding the request for more aquarium fish hybrids. Or even exploring a particular family of fish and how they've evolved.
Sunfish in general tend to hybridize in the wild because they are often found in the same waters and they have similar spawning habits. Their offspring are often even more colorful than the parents.
I've seen tons of weird colors in sunfish infested waters like shades of purple and I've seen a red one a single time, I've only fished a few years but I've found countless sunfish who's colors weren't right for our local species(we have no red sunfish to my knowledge and I've never heard of purple and black sunfish eother)
Yup. I have caught hybrid sunfish that had characteristics of more than 2 species.
Many bass are in the sufish family, hybridization is crazy. Wish the crappie did hydridize with the warmouth sunfish or any other's...
@@Deeznutz002 hybridizing in the black bass family is usually a bad thing. For instance, the shoal bass is native to the streams where I live, but they are threatened by hybridization with illegally stocked spotted bass. I have caught these hybrids, but no shoal bass.
@@fishingthelist4017 most of the time hybridization threatens at least 1 local species. It all depends on the ecosystem.
your videos are one of my favorite on youtube.
Your content just keeps getting better and more interesting
There's a pretty cool bass hybrid called the meanmouth bass. The parent species are a smallmouth bass and a largemouth or spotted bass (at least I think it can be a spotted bass). But since bass usually seems to be other fishermen's favorite and most targeted fish it might be a cool one. But I'm always amazed to see a nice sized musky or tiger musky and hope to one day catch one...
I've heard of a Warmouth...but not a mean mouth.
I think they are same thing based on your description though.
@@heathb4319 Nope, Warmouth are a different variety of sunfish.
@@lugoismad ...that maybe so...however i grew up on a lot of southeastern lakes and have seen a hybrid of a small mouth and large mouth bass called a Warmouth by every old school fisherman that was around during these times. So thats how i know it to be called that.
I just looked up sunfish and the large mouth bass is part of the family. So i think we are talking about the same basic thing just from two different experiences in life with them.
Later...
@@heathb4319 warmouth sunfish are different than small/largemouth bass hybrids. But yes theyre all related, and its entirely possible the old heads near you call meanmouths warmouths. But warmouths are another actual panfish species.
Good luck!
I love my Flowerhorn he is the funniest and fun fish to watch and to interact with.
It gave my juvenile mind such great joy when you said there's "plenty of fish" that can breed.
Excellent video!
Your videos are really informative!
thank you i appreciate it :)
Love it, the content is is so professional and well explained. Thanks for posting 🖤
Keep up the great work, Tsuki!! Congrats on 35k subs, can't wait for 40k! :)
Amazing content with a lot of effort! Keep it up!
thanks i appreciate it :)
Would love to see the hybrid saugeye on an episode.. cross between walleye and sauger. Very popular thru the US Midwest.
I got a flowerhorn and he’s awesome. He’s my water puppy , he likes to play when my hand is in the tank . Only fish that lets me pet him.
This is a super neat and interesting video! Loved it, keep up the good work
I caught my first tiger musky this week:) hell of a fight, beautiful, massive fish
I want a hybrid fish series (please)
I was going to ask for this topic next time you posted... lo and behold...
Great and very informative content! caught bluegills here in Japan, but haven't seen the other lepomis, Greetings from Japan! keep up the good work!
great video tsuki
The clip of Arnie at the start can make anyone's bad day turn into a good one in an instant. Such a handsome boy 🐕 Also love the videos mate always looking forward to the next upload 👍
Superb explanation
Best content and best explain
Yes I'm early for the first time! Love ur vids and ur vids inspire me to make some similar content
Thanks man that means alot i appreciate it :)
@@TsukiCove np
@@DanRemdor hello
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Great video! If your do another episode you should look at the cut-bow trout (a mix of rainbow trout and cutthroat trout)!
I caught some brook trout. When cleaning the fish I noticed one was different. I took it to a fish and game warden. He said hey you caught yourself a tiger trout. I had never heard of them before!
good job tsuki
Finally on time on one of your vids
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Love flower horn by the way
Such an interesting video, the work in the editing and research is really appreciated.
Okay we're going to have to revise how we look at taxonomy if we have fish from different families hybridizing
That was a surprise to learn to be honest
Taxonomy the way it's commonly taught in schools, with neat species, genera, families, etcetera, has been recognised by scientists as incorrect and insufficient for most scientific purposes years ago. Most either use cladistics or disregard taxonomy in favour of ecological guilds. Schools just tend to lag behind the actual science, probably because revising the textbooks takes a lot of time and money.
Like human races are getting more and more mixed
@@alphatrion100 Not in the slightest. All humans belong to a single species, Homo sapiens. The video is talking about hybridisation between different species. Home sapiens (more correctly sub-species Homo sapiens sapiens) is, in point of fact, one of the least genetically diverse species of mammal in the world; a result of having emerged from a very small gene pool. You can't get much more "mixed" than human beings. There is more diversity in a single group of Bonobo chimps than in the entire human species. We are all one very closely related family.
@@michaelafrancis1361 but our facial carachteristics, hair, body sizes and color (yes i went there) differ so much.
I feel like if we found 2 animals that are so different we would classify them as 2 species. Or atleast sub species.
BUT i do understand the social upset that would cause so we maybe CHOSE not to? Im not sure.
Great video I didn’t know most of they fish this is a good idea for a series if you can
Just caught a few hybrid bluegills the other day, they are so pretty.
Love these vids🗿
Amazing content as always 👏 🇬🇧
Thanks i really appreciate it :)
this was really interesting. i'd love to see more!
Love this channel
thanks i'm glad you like the vids :)
I honestly wouldn't mind a flowerhorn if they didn't get so big. I like their stupid faces.
In Kentucky we have a hybrid white bass-striped bass called the hybrid striper. They tend to run bigger than white bass but smaller than striped bass.
I had no idea brook trout wasn’t a real trout. My family used to go camping in Wyoming a ton when I was a kid and we’d catch tons of em. Delicious.
I once caught a Splake in a natural high mountain lake in Colorado. It is a mix between a lake trout and a brook trout.
There is a WI state hatchery on Lake Superior that actively breeds Splake for release in Lake Superior. Splake are a very common catch in the western end of the big Lake.
Love your videos
thanks im glad you like them :)
Longnose Gar x Alligator Gar hybrids are awesome fish... and extremely rare. I know an Alligator Gar guide in Texas that has caught thousands of Gar but only a handful of these hybrids.
Amazing information. Love your channel. BTW I'm one of the non liking of flower horns. 😉👍👍👍
What an intriguing concept 😍🤩😍 please everyone comment a cool hybrid I really want to see a part 2!!!
red tail catfish x pangasius
Thank you for another great and entertaining video. I know of other hybrid fish (you mentioned some of them already in the video) parrot cichlids (on its own) - Polar Blue Parrot Cichlids (parrot/convict) - some smallest hybrids CPD/Emerald rasbora cross IDK the english name (Danio Marginatus/Danio Erythromicron) - some biggest could be redtail/shovelnose hybrid catfish
One of the most incredible hybrid I ever saw is the Amazon Red Tail Cat x Mekong Cat.
There's a hybrid between a largemouth and smallmouth bass called a meanmouth bass, not the most interesting hybrid fish but they are known to be a little more aggressive
Awesome list
Where I live there's a hybrid between the native Yellowstone Cutthroat Trout and the introduced Raindow Trout called the Cutbow Trout. We are told if you catch one your not supposed to release it.
Hi new subscriber I enjoyed your story
I have never heard of paddle fish before, and it is upsetting to know a species has gone extinct. Anyways, great video!👍
My Cat & I were entranced as usual 😅🐟
My cat took one look at that dog and hid under the couch
"Flowerhorns" are so goofy looking as to be quite charming. Color always garners attention, so how can you go wrong with a dazzling Flowerhorn? Oh yes, their size also recommends them.
I have to disagree. A lot of flowerhorns are prone to infection and a premature death. Really, it is irresponsible and unethical to create a fish like this. If you want a charming fish with personality and color, get a tiger or fire morph of an oscar.
As someone who owns a flowerhorn, and many other aggressive central and South American cichlids (red devils, vieja, festae, jags, Jack Dempseys, green terror) I was always put off by them simply because of the hybridization process and for the ethical and moral dilemma that come with it. Chilli (my female flowerhorn) whom I rescued from a small tank with disgusting green water and a noticeable smell of urea has rewarded me greatly with a loving but staunch personality. I was told "she doesn't get along with others" but has turned out to be one of the more timid and gentle fish in the tank.
She is very goofy looking indeed but I think it adds to her charm, the oversized eyes and slight underbite makes her look like the bulldog of the fish world.
If I wasn't given the opportunity to give her a new or better life I never would have even considered buying one, now she's one of my favourites.
@@oldsalt394 I think its great you rescued the fish. I just don't think, as a matter of principle, its a good idea.
pt 2 add splake brook trout and lake trout ty luv ur videos!
Here in canada we got a pretty common hybrid called splake trout it's a natural cross between brook trout and lake trout
Can't stand flower horns but I recently discovered the Thai silk flowerhorn and low key fell in love.
It's been a while since we've seen an update on your aquariums.
unfortunately i had to rehome them a little while ago but i'm planning on getting more in the future
@@TsukiCove let us know what your plans are. . . .aquatists tend to help one another. Want to go collect some?
Do a hybrid bos/pythons video! People have went all out with those things and i think it's worth covering in a video. I've seen people mixing anacondas with central american boas
The world clearly needs the Sturddlefish in it ^^
CutBow , cut throat trout + rainbow trout
It would be interesting to hear your take on red eye bass/ spotted bass hybrids. They are an issue due to our competing and outnumbering the rarer native red eye in Alabama. They are a fascinating fish. And the more people that can learn about them the better. These fish are facing lots of problems and being native to only a few river in Alabama and Georgia the range isn’t big to begin with.
Warmouth: bluegill and bass hybrid
A lot of people don’t know but bass and bluegill are pretty closely related as the only true bass are yellow and striped bass if I recall correctly
Have caught a few saugeye, they tolerate dirtier water like a sauger , but they grow bigger like a walleye.
My cousin had a male Flowerhorn and a female Jaguar cichlids that produced about 100 fry that made it to adulthood. He then bred those offspring to a Red Devil cichlids. Evil fish!!! Lol
A couple more hybrids of the trout/salmon species are the cutbow (rainbow trout and cutthroat trout) and the cobow ( rainbow trout and coho salmon).
I like flowerhorn becuse they are colourful
This is very intriguing 🤔
Thank you sir
Love thus Flowerhorn fish.
Here in Australia another trout hybrid was created, It’s called the Cheetah trout and it’s a cross between Rainbow trout and Brook trout
35k lets gooo tsuki
thanks man :)
Caught tiger trout before, can confirm, they are beautiful
I have caught a few tiger trout, didn't know what the were as, it was the 70s and no google. I just wrote them off as a brown trout. Nice to know. The palomino trout is probably the prettiest, and rarest, I have only seen one in my life and it was a lunker.
just a few that i know of.
Hybrid F1 Carp a cross between Common Carp and Crucian Carp.
Hybrid striped bass a cross between white bass and stripped bass
and a few of the letherjacket (filefish) species can hybridize
For more fish you should check out the wiper bass.
In PA in the late 90s there stocking trout cald Splake
Muskie is short nick name for Muskellunge, it is the fish of 100,000 casts. The Tiger is very aggressive and not as hard to catch compared to it's parent. Love you vids
in the pet trade we have the platy and swordtail, they have been interbreed to get the colors we have now, so non of them are 100% paly or swordtail.
and we have the same with the molly as they have interbreed different kinds to get what we have now.
on the other hand we have the different Malawi cichlids, they are all relatively closely related so if you have a few single fish from different species or some that look similar, you can get hybrids, and these are frowned upon, not like with the platy, swordtail and molly that where breed deliberate.
I can't believe you did the green sunfish over the bigger redears.
Steelhead trout are also a cool looking hybrid!! Pretty sure its rainbow trout and salmon :)
Steelhead trout are simply just an ocean run rainbow trout, they are genetically identical to each other
Channel-Bull a hybrid of Channel Catfish and Yellow Bullhead. Found in the Pecitonica river.
Finally
A 5 hybird fish that i never see thx
On my last trip (June 2021) to Bull Shoals, AR, I caught 2 Tiger Trout down below the dam on the White River. I honestly thought I had a very large Brown Trout both times. They we 16" Tigers. Fun to catch, but kinda disappointing once landed as they were so much smaller than the Brown's were were catching (22" - 25").
My uncle and i cought a paddle fish by mistake back in 2017. We new right away we needed to release it as soon as possible so we did. It was so cool looking and weird that we caught it in the bayou in south Louisiana. I did get a picture of it before we released it never know if ill never get the chance again in my life.
The paddlefish isn't endangered. He doesn't know what he's talking about
WIPER!!! it's a white bass mixed with a stripped bass and they are amazing sport fish
Loved the video there’s a another trout hybrid with salmon
Trout alone have many hybrids. Splake, Cutbow, etc. Sunfish have many hybrids. Bass have hybrids. Walleye has at least one hybrid.
I love the flower horns
quite new to the aquarium hobby is the parrot/convict hybrid. I'm actually getting a breeding pair this week coming
Another hybrid is the whiper a white bass and a striped bass
7:45 when the trout is sus! 😂😂😳🤪
Love flower horn
There are Muskies in Canada and their range over laps with the northern pike.
Very cool hybrid is the the warmouth it's a hybrid between a bluegill and largemouth bass. They are pretty common in the wild
Incorrect. The warmouth (Lepomis gulosus) is not a hybrid of a bluegill (Lepomis macrochirus) and largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides). Warmouth is in the same genus as bluegill, but it is its own species. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warmouth
i love these
You should do splakes, hybrid striped bass, and mean mouth bass
my family used to own a flowerhorn named lucky. We got him as a baby and he was a very ugly silver/black mix when we got him, so he was very cheap. Within 6 months he had doubled his size and had eaten all the neon tetras and shrimp that were his tank mates. Within a year his colors came back and he was a beautiful pink and green color with dark red spots. At this time he was around 8 inches in a 60 gallon aquaruim by himself, so if he got any bigger we didnt know what we would do with him. fast forward another year, hes a foot long and is so aggressive that if someone so much as walks by the tank he slams into the glass full speed. We didnt know what to do with him, so we sold him to a local fish shop for around 300 dollars. So, if you know what youre doing and have plenty of spare 80-100 gallon tanks you can make a pretty penny breeding them.